I've been thinking about what I really enjoy about my job and there are several common things that I like.

• Being involved from the start, so I can really help shape ideas and get my teeth in to the concept.
• It has to be unusual and complex, but expressed simply.
• Something real and exterior to cyber space that's brought in to the design, like photos or paint .
  
• Some form of guerrilla action! Like the wave letters , or the growbag on top of a multi-story car park.

This is a small part of a larger idea that has all of the above (more in the new year):

Today I have mostly been completing the DVD artwork for hubworld .

For the flyer back in June I used this image: (click for a bigger view)

I took a sneaky panorama during the hubworld event too: (click for a bigger view)

and then blended them: (click for a bigger view)

For the dvd artwork...

Cover:

Label:

It's all happening down at Alum Chine:

 

Hubworld is almost upon us and I thought I'd squeeze in an update to my portfolio, something I'm getting less opportunity to do recently...

The design for this project developed quite a lot after the promo image back in January:

Taking the photos on the beach helped focus the concept:

Click the image below for a larger view:

Resulting in the final brochure and supporting flyers:

 

 

General flyer:

 

 

Child's Flyer:

 

 

Teenager's Flyer:

 

Click here to see PDF's of this project.

The hub map I produced last year (or as some call it 'the hub brain') has been published in The Journal Of Arts Marketing.

Always nice to see your work published. Hubalicious (the youth web design group I work with) are also mentioned.

Click the image below to see the article.

I've just been updating my portfolio with recent work. A large chunk of what I've been doing recently is for a project called Growbags.

Growbags are performance scratch nights taking place all over Dorset.

Back in October I created a promo image for Growbags by driving to the top of a multi-storey car park, standing in a growbag and taking photos.

Continuing the public insanity theme for the flyer - I took photos of myself dressed in a suit, in the January rain, wearing sunglasses, with my bare feet in a growbag. For each shot I had to run around the camera, set the self timer and run back...

For this project we also created a beer mat using the original promo image. I like to think my feet are supporting glasses and mugs all over Dorset.

I suppose it's not a 'normal' day job, but it beats reading the FT on a packed tube.

See here for the complete picture.

I've also been working on this brochure... It's been a busy month.

See here for more.

 

I've recently been working on a website called 2ndbirthday.co.uk

It's a community based project we are setting up to try create a venue for the arts in Bournemouth. We're all bored of having nowhere to go, nothing to see.

So if it ain't working try and fix it!!

The concept is that we make a center for the arts by offering the venue out to the community.

You pledge something (time, money, your Gran) to support the venue and in return you get a 2nd birthday at the venue, at which you can programme your own night of entertainment... artistic or otherwise.

Now it's not only the queen that has a 2nd birthday.

Why not click here and register?

Just finished this flyer for Activate Performing Arts. See here for more.

I'm finding more and more recently that I'm creating promo images for the events I'm designing for.

It's usually so there's some sort of graphic to be added to copy. They could be for press releases , websites or brochures .

It usually means thinking on your feet as you have to turn around an image at the time of receiving the brief, sometimes with little to work on.

Either that or go stand on top of a Multi story car park in a growbag .

Here's a couple of promo images I created for homegrown, activate's performing arts showcase taking place on July 4th.

I just completed a taster image for 'Hubworld'. More to come later in the year.

'Thousands of children and young people from Bournemouth and Poole are planning to celebrate midsummer with the creation of spectacular two-day arts festival at Alum Chine in Bournemouth entitled Hubworld.'

Click here for more.

I sent out an e-Christmas Card yesterday. View it here .

I've been out and about taking photos for this year's Christmas card. It taken me to some interesting locations, with some unusual spectators...

 

This design is for Activate's annual report for 2006 & mid 2007. The content had to reflect that time frame, so the images used had to be prior to a lot of events that had already happened.

This precluded a lot of juicy images from events such as the inside out festival, I tried to sneak one in , but they're too vigilant at Activate.

See here for more.

Just finished this A5 double sided flyer for Activate Performing Arts. See here for more.

There wasn't much room to play in this one!